Operation Rescue: SC flattens attempt to criminalize Christianity!

[Bluebear]

:crazy:


Supreme Court Does It Again!

To: National Desk

Contact: Rev. Flip Benham, Operation Save America, 980-722-4920


CHARLOTTE, NC, Feb. 28 /Christian News Wire/ -- Response from Rev. Flip Benham, National Director of Operation Rescue/Save America to today's US Supreme Court decision on NOW v. Scheidler:

"In its second decision in three years, the Supreme Court of the United States of America has once again flattened the radical pro-abortion industry’s attempt to criminalize Christianity," said Rev. Flip Benham, National Director of Operation Rescue/Save America. "In another death blow, the Supremes handed the fanatics in the National Organization of Women (NOW), Planned Parenthood, and the abortion industry in general, their death certificate." Will this end their incomprehensible rage and fury against Christianity? Not hardly!

For 20 years now, they (NOW, Planned Parenthood, et. al.) have dragged gentle Christians through the mud of the media and our nation’s court system in depositions, trials, and various outrageous hearings, costing them (the Christians) millions of dollars. In 2003, the Supreme Court ruled 8-1 that Christians who lived out their faith at abortion mills were not racketeers. "We rejoiced!" said Rev. Benham, "But even the Supreme Court could not abate the frenzy and fierceness of the abortion industry."

NOW's trickery relied on the 1970 Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act, used predominantly in criminal cases against organized crime. Their attempt was to label and libel gentle Christians, living out their Christian faith at abortion mills, as racketeers!

Today, in a unanimous 8-0 decision, the Supreme Court of the United States of America ruled that federal extortion and racketeering laws cannot be used to ban Christians from living out their faith in the streets. This decision has now, and forever, declared that Christians are not racketeers!

The real purpose of NOW v. Scheidler was to tarnish the name of Jesus Christ and His image-bearers. It was a systematic attempt to paint every gentle Christian who went to an abortion clinic to save babies, as a wild-eyed lunatic bent on blowing up abortion mills and shooting abortionists. With the help of the media, the lawsuit did accomplish this purpose, but it could not stop the song. The song goes on! The True Life Giver continues on, until one day abortion will be shoved into its grave. No one will dare put a marker over it but God Himself!

http://www.earnedmedia.org/osa0228.htm

[AnnieBW]

1. "Gentle Christians"?

Who is this a**hole trying to kid??? :wtf:

[FreedomAngel82]

2. What in the world are these people talking about?

I'm a Christian and I have never been "persecuted" against. I've been more-so for being a liberal than anything else. These people are ALWAYS playing the victim. If they aren't how else are they going to make money?

[Initech]

3. There's a pro-abortion industry?

:wtf:

[dsc]

4. As the lopsided nature of those votes suggest

this was a gross missuse of those statutes. Arresting protesters who break the law is one thing and certainly should be done. But to criminalize all the members of an organization for the actions of a few is way out of line. This tactic could easily be used against virtually any group of protesters including, but not limited to, anti war, anti NAFTA, and others.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

5. These people aren't "protesters". They're brownshirts.

They are seeking to intimidate, not protest.

[dsc]

6. some are and some aren't

Would you like all protesters of corporate power to be treated like those violent anarchists since they only try to intimidate. Letting this standard be used on those you don't like is the easiest way to be sure it is used against those you do like. On edit the votes in these cases have been 8 to 1 and 8 to 0. It goes across the entire spectrum of the SC.

[Wrinkle_In_Time]

7. You know, if you translated this into Farsi or Arabic...

... substituting "Mohammed" & "Allah" for "Jesus Christ" & "God" and showed it to these same people, they would laugh at it and claim that the writers were insane religious fanatics.

And they would be right.

[acmejack]

9. Absolutely correct. I was angry until someone pointed it out to me.

It is important for us, when we want to peacefully protest.

[tularetom]

8. I have trouble taking seriously

anybody named Rev. Flip.